Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . Drawing and CartooningFt. McHenry, BaltimoreAn art adapted to many conditions and leading on to many vocations Achievement 31 Out of hospital conditions grew a new department of educa-tional activity directly in line with the curative purpose of theschool. It was a department devoted to the measurement ofthe extent of motion and function in case of weakened musclesor impaired joints. Very ingenious measuring apparatus wasdevised. Frequent measurements were taken
Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . Drawing and CartooningFt. McHenry, BaltimoreAn art adapted to many conditions and leading on to many vocations Achievement 31 Out of hospital conditions grew a new department of educa-tional activity directly in line with the curative purpose of theschool. It was a department devoted to the measurement ofthe extent of motion and function in case of weakened musclesor impaired joints. Very ingenious measuring apparatus wasdevised. Frequent measurements were taken of the patientsand recorded graphically on charts, showing at a glance the upsand downs of recovery. This measurement was called metro-. Metro-Therapy, Measuring Elbow MotionWalter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. therapy. It informed the medical officers and instructors re-garding the mans progress and the efficacy of treatment. Itafforded encouragement to the man and stimulated interest inhis own case. It improved mental attitude and encouraged co-operation and effort. Thousands of these measurements weretaken. Chart 6 shows the record of one soldier whose recoveryof function in elbow and wrist coincided with the work taken intypewriting and woodwork. At times the curve of progressshowed abrupt decline or plateaus of no improvement which
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